Using ls to figure out permissions is a bad design anyway, so I would
not be surprised if this hardcode was reported as a bug.
LLoyd
On 11 December 2015 at 09:19, Samuel <samuelrivas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experiencing some crashes when using spark over local files (mainly for
> testing). Some operations fail with
>
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Error while running command to get file
> permissions : java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/bin/ls": error=2, No
> such file or directory
> at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:206)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:188)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell$ShellCommandExecutor.execute(Shell.java:381)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.execCommand(Shell.java:467)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.execCommand(Shell.java:450)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.execCommand(RawLocalFileSystem.java:593)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.access$100(RawLocalFileSystem.java:51)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$RawLocalFileStatus.loadPermissionInfo(RawLocalFileSystem.java:514)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$RawLocalFileStatus.getPermission(RawLocalFileSystem.java:489)
> at
> org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.ParquetRelation2$$anonfun$buildScan$1$$anon$1$$anonfun$12.apply(newParquet.scala:292)
>
> etcetera...
>
> Which seems to be related to Shell.java in org.apache.hadoop-util, that uses
> ls -ld to figure out file permissions (that is in
> RawLocalFileSystem.loadPermissionsInfo). The problem is that instead of just
> calling ls, Shell .java calls /bin/ls, which is usually available, but in
> certain circumstances might not. Regardless of the reasons not to have ls in
> /bin, hardcoding the directory bans users from using the standard mechanisms
> to decide which binaries to run in their systems (in this case, $PATH), so I
> wonder if there is a particular reason why that path has been hardcoded to
> an absolute path instead to something resolvable using$PATH.
>
> Or in other words, is this a bug or a feature?
>
> Best
>
> --
> Samuel
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